There's no business like show business.
Of course in show business there are two ways to play it and I am not politically correct so I am not going to get endorsements or anything like that.
I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer, and then I got a job as an actor.
I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.
I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.
A lot of show business, as you know, is about all the contacts you make and who you know.
I love every aspect of show business and that includes both the show part of it and the business part of it.
I didn't have the drive; I never wanted to be in show business. I went into my father's business because of osmosis.
Show business is part of a larger culture, a world-wide culture that must make up to the fact that the accumulation of things doesn't make a life necessary any happier or purposeful.
Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.
Rejection is a big part of show business. It can be tough on anyone who doesn't have fairly good self-esteem. Especially kids, as they try to discover who they are.
Buzz and the right publicist are not only important but crucial in show business.
At home, we don't listen to our music-we listen to other people's music. It keeps you attached to the show business world.
I was never really brought into the show business side of my father's life. I guess that's been a blessing and a downfall. But it's made my own work the initiation.
The only thing harder than leaving show business is coming back.
The theatre show-biz types don't change much, no matter what era we're in. The question of how you balance being in show business with your personal life isn't very different.
Show business has always been my life. I love it. I've shared the ups and downs. So it will still be my life. It is a big piece of your life because this is all you know. It just seems like it takes you to such great heights in your life.
Julianne Moore and Michael Keaton began in 1980s soap operas and 1970s sitcoms, respectively, such ancient history by show business standards that you need carbon dating to measure their careers.
Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.
I walked out of the show business in 1968 because I thought that would be good for the family. It took me some time to decide but I wanted to spend more time with my wife and two daughters who were always beside me. I wanted to do everything I could for them.
I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business.
And, you know, when you are a kid, everybody wants to be an actor. I think that everybody wants to be in show business, frankly.
I'm very leery of show business, having been in Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Buzz is a dangerous thing that I've heard applied to a lot of people that I've since not heard of again.
I came from a real working-class show business family.
Show business got really tainted for me.
There are two reasons why I'm in show business, and I'm standing on both of them.
There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.
I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.
For a few years, I thought I was putting show business behind me. I was busy doing other things in life, particularly with politics. I was not out looking for films, really. I lost interest.
Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.
I'm just a giddy teenager who would like to break into show business any way I can.
No matter what the role, you're trying to do the impossible - make a living in show business.
What happened was, my parents after 'Circus Boy' decided to take me out of show business for two years to go back to normal school. It was the smartest thing they ever did.
Although I'm largely doing other things in life, it's very nice occasionally to put my toe back in the waters of show business.
I said, to hell with the whole thing, to hell with show business. I'm gonna make a new life for myself, and I got off drugs, completely kicked all that stuff.
I'm in this business, man, and I honestly don't know anything about show business at all. I don't know how it works.
